Quality month inaugural function was held Tuesday at BHEl Bhopal with Anand Prakash Bhairve, Managing Director, MP Power Generating Company ltd as the chief guest on the occasion.
Celebration of November as Quality month first started in Japan by Society of Japanese scientists and Engineers (JUSE) in 1960. Now, Quality month is celebrated by all major countries in the month of November including India.
In the welcome address, MS Kinra, General Manager (Quality) stressed that achieving quality should not be treated as burden but as a natural consequence and cited a story of a small girl carrying her much younger brother uphill without treating him as a burden.
He gave brief introduction about the chief Guest, various quality initiatives being taken and the importance on involving grass root level workers for improvement of quality. He focused on the new initiative of Kaizen.
Executive Director, AMV Yugandhar, administered Quality pledge to employees and read out CMD’s message on quality month.
He cited various initiatives planned such as TPIA awareness sessions, Quality at Doorstep programmes, special process audits, vendor audits, Quality Circle unit convention etc that have been planned during quality month and motivated employees for large scale participation in these activities . He stressed that market is aggressive and highly competitive and in order to sustain and grow, we have to focus on quality.
He emphasized that all our labs are NABl certified to so that it reinforces customer’s confidence in our testing. He inaugurated unit Quality Circle Convention with a case study presentation made by Quality Circle no; 605 of HCM department.
Anand Prakash Bhairve, Managing Director, MPPGCl as chief guest emphasised on importance of quality and felt that liaison with customers give an opportunity to improve. He stressed that poor quality means increased cost.
He recollected that when he joined MPEB in 1982 as Assistant Engineer, he was told that once order is given to BHEl then there is no worry about quality aspects or audit para.
He felt that quality is determining factor in placing an organisation above its competitors. He elaborated on root cause analysis and PDCA cycle besides an array of other quality aspects.
He inaugurated launch of Kaizen scheme. Ashish Jain, DGM (SWM) made presentation on Kaizen scheme and projects undertaken in SCR department under leadership of then GM (SCR) and presently GM(Quality) MS Kinra. He felt that quality is all about perceptibility and acceptability.